Former Detroit Mayor Corruption Conviction

 Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick really stepped in it now. He ran a blatantly corrupt administration that has bit him in the end.

U.S. prosecutors accused Kilpatrick, 42, his father and a city contractor of widespread corruption, extorting bribes from contractors who wanted to be awarded or keep city contracts, turning the mayor's office into "Kilpatrick Incorporated" during his seven year tenure.

The 12 jurors, who deliberated for 14 days from mid-February in a U.S. District Court trial that started last September, returned a sweeping verdict against Kilpatrick following the biggest public corruption probe in Detroit in decades.

Shazam!

Photo Credit Reuters 

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